GoFast video
GoFast is an infrared recording made in 2015 by a U.S. Navy fighter jet, in which a small object appears to move quickly above the sea. It became public in 2018, and the Pentagon officially released it in 2020. According to later analyses, the appearance of fast motion is caused by parallax.
The GoFast video is a short infrared recording made in January 2015, in which a small object appears to move quickly above the ocean surface. The footage was recorded by the targeting pod of a U.S. Navy F/A–18F Super Hornet fighter jet near the U.S. East Coast. The video was published in 2018 by To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science. In 2019, the Navy confirmed that the footage was genuine, but that its release had not been authorized. The Pentagon officially released it in 2020. According to the official classification, it is an unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP).
Alongside the Gimbal and FLIR1 (“Tic Tac”) recordings, GoFast is one of the three most frequently cited, officially acknowledged Navy UAP videos.
What the footage shows
In the video, the object is visible above the sea surface, and the camera tracks it. The pilots' surprised remarks can be heard in the background. The name “GoFast” was given to the footage by To The Stars Academy, because of the apparent fast motion.
Official and skeptical positions
The Pentagon confirmed the authenticity of the footage, but it gave no explanation of the object's origin. Several analysts, including Mick West, concluded from the camera data visible in the video that the object was actually moving slowly, well above the sea, and that the appearance of fast motion is caused by parallax: because of the fighter jet's motion, the background sweeps quickly past behind the object. NASA's independent UAP study team reached a similar result in 2023: according to their calculations, the object was at an altitude of roughly 4,000 meters and was moving at about the speed of the wind. This is consistent with a balloon or another wind-drifted object. According to other interpreters, the data are not sufficient for a definitive identification.